Posts By: Alonzo Felder

Well here we are once again on the crest of another July 4th. Each year I take some time to read the speech given at Rochester, NY on July 5, 1852 by Fredrick Douglass.  This year as I searched for a copy of the speech, I came across a performance of (at least a part… Continue reading →

As a nation we have many memorials What memorials do you have for your ancestors?   Door of No Return in Senegal Gettysburg Battlefield, Pennsylvania Lincoln memorial The United States Memorial Arch is situated at the top of a hill in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall The Marine Corp War Memorial in Washington,… Continue reading →

As events unfold involving injustices toward minority individuals I have observed a pattern of what I call unrighteous responses to the aggression and perceived injustice in our world. Is it right to shoot an unarmed Black child? No! Is it right to see shooters go unpunished in seemingly clear cases of murder? No! But help… Continue reading →

“The Rev. A.S.J. Allen was a revered Methodist minister in Alachua County who was murdered by a powerful plantation owner in 1904. His death sparked a social movement for justice as black churches, secret societies, and civic organizations mobilized to demand that Rev. Allen’s death be treated seriously by the state. AAHP (Alachua County African-American… Continue reading →

Many people celebrate Cinco de Mayo for the wrong reasons. The holiday is not Mexico’s Independence Day, which is September 16, but rather celebrates the country’s brief victory over French forces in 1862. Cinco de Mayo also relates to the mass immigration to California by people in Mexico and Central and South America during the… Continue reading →